Open AccessThe Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Orthopaedic Residency Program Social Media Utilization
Author(s) -
Brendan Holderread,
Jonathan Liu,
Austin E. Wininger,
Joshua D. Harris,
Shari R. Liberman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jb and js open access
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2472-7245
DOI - 10.2106/jbjs.oa.21.00104
Subject(s) - social media , accreditation , reputation , ranking (information retrieval) , medical education , covid-19 , psychology , medicine , sociology , computer science , world wide web , social science , disease , pathology , machine learning , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented challenge for orthopaedic surgery residency applicants when away rotations were canceled and interviews were held virtually. The authors hypothesized that (1) Instagram would have more total social media accounts compared with Twitter or Facebook, (2) most social media accounts on all platforms would be created during 2020, and (3) the average number of Instagram followers would be higher among highly ranked programs.